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From: "John Merz" <>
Subject: [QUEBEC] Subject: Briant
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:21:25 -0400
References: <200108030258.f732wRI66756@tbaytel.net>

Hello Quebecers, this is not from me, it flew into my
cookoo's nest from another listowner. Please answer
to this address with copy to this list. John


> -quoted-
> After searching your wonderful pages I thought perhaps you could help me
> break through this 25+ years brick wall I have.
> My family, all who have passed over now, has told the same story since I
was
> a child. That we were descended from Joseph Brant and since the family
> didn't want to be known as Indian they added a letter in the name.
> I looked at the page concerning the descendants of Joseph Brant but I
can't
> see where there is a connection, maybe from a lack of enough info on my
side.
> That, or there is no connection.
>
> I have 1. William Briant b. unknown but probably c.1778. Married unknown.
> William was a loyalist who had land confiscated in Albany, NY and then
Rouses
> Point. In 1802 the family is said to be in Canada. I was told William
was a
> grocer in Montreal for a while.
> 2. Francis was born abt. 1800 in the USA. He married a woman named
> Susannah. Where unknown but all 5 of their children were born in
Shefford,
> Quebec on a land grant that Capt. Savage supposedly gave Francis.
> 3. Son Jared was born on Jan 2, 1816-1820. He married Fanny Sophia Bell
in
> 1842 in Granby, Quebec. He removed to Keene, NY where he is buried.
>
> Jared and Fanny are my 3rd g. grandparents. All the info about the land
> grants and leaving the US for Canada I have been told and am not sure of
it
> being correct as I haven't been offered any documents for proof.
> If you know of any connection or sources for Francis & Susannah I would
> greatly appreciate some direction. I have never found a maiden name for
> Susannah and think it is an English name she perhaps adopted when marrying
> Francis. Since Francis is supposed to have received land from Capt. John
> Savage and I have been told that he would have never granted it to an
Indian,
> maybe Susannah, by changing her name could pass herself off as non indian.
I
> know they were not married in Shefford, Quebec. Neil Broadhurts book on
> Protestant births and baptisms lists Francis and Susannah and all their
> children but the book on marriages he compiled does not have them married
in
> Shefford. Lynn.
> -end quote-
>
>

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